Being a lomo user, photographer Hunter Richards’s Canon 5D Mark II hack has totally made my Friday. Using a Russian lomo lens from the ’80s with an adapter, he managed to create a beautifully-shot lomo film worthy of your attention.

Hunter’s description of his set-up is probably the easiest way to explain it properly to curry favor with the photography crowd:
“What I think is cool about using 2x anamorphic lenses on the fullframe sensor of the 5d mark 2, is that you can extract the full 4-perf anamorphic gate size as on anamorphic 35mm film in video mode (as the 5d mark 2 sensor is 26mm tall and I only need an image height of about 18mmx22mm to use the image area designed for use with the lenses. Basically this is a very cheap way to shoot “full frame” digital anamorphic because there can be literally no crop factor (as with shooting anamorphic with the Red, F35, ect… which makes 2x anamorphic lenses behave like approx. 1.34x their focal length (more telephoto field of view)- The only current other digital systems available I know of for using the full image area required by 2x anamorphic lenses are the Arri 21 and Phantom HD- which of course make nicer images than the 5dmark2′s video mode- but its still fun none the less to get some of that look for relatively cheap.”
He uses two Lomo “roundfront” anamorphic lenses from Russia, made between the ’80s and ’90s, but in the video below he used a 75mm t2.4 one, which cost around $3,000 – $5,000. If you’re wanting to emulate his set-up, the Oct-19 EOS adapter used is from Cinemods.com and fits all EOS mount models.

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This photo shows the power of image post-processing. It also shows that we are a tiny speck of nothingness in the middle of a fiery cosmic fluff. Enjoy the famous M51 galaxy, like you have never seen it before.
Scientists have digitally reprocessed data from the Hubble’s Advanced Camera for Surveys to get this new view of the NGC 5194—the 51st object in Charles Messier’s catalog—which is considered “the original spiral nebula.” According to NASA, “the processing has further sharpened details and enhanced color and contrast in otherwise faint areas, bringing out dust lanes and extended streams that cross the small companion, along with features in the surroundings and core of M51 itself.” The results are amazing, and the battle between 60,000-light-year-wide NGC 5194 and its companion NGC 5195 have never been so crisp and beautiful before.
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One of Pixar’s best movies.
Planurile Google de a digitaliza biblioteca mondială au mai primit o lovitură: o instanţă pariziană a decis că gigantul american trebuie să plătească amenda către editura franceză La Martinière.

Compania americană trebuie să plătească 300.000 de euro către grupul La Martinière, sumă care reprezintă daune şi dobânzile aferente pentru “falsificare”, mai exact digitalizarea fără permisiune a unor cărţi scoase de editura Éditions du Seuil.
Google va trebui să renunţe la proiectul de digitalizare a volumelor franceze dacă nu doreşte să fie din nou sancţionată, spune Le Monde. Compania americană a mai fost obligată să plătească 10.000 de euro pe zi în cazul în care întârzie suprimarea volumelor în cauză din propria bază de date, arată BBC News.
“Cititorii francezi sunt în pericol să rămână fără acces la o cantitate consistentă de informaţie şi să piardă astfel teren faţă de restul utilizatorilor de internet”, declară un reprezentant Google. “Decizia arată că Google nu este regele lumii şi că nu poate tot ce îi trece prin cap”, spune în replică un editor francez.
Decizia instanţei din Hexagon ar putea avea implicaţii majore în planurile Google de a digitaliza cărţile din întreaga lume. Compania are deja încheiată o înţelegere cu editorii şi autorii din SUA pentru digitalizarea cărţilor de peste Ocean, dar momentan se află în renegocieri cu justiţia americană care a ajuns la concluzia că pactul afectează legea anti-monopol.
It took 300 people to construct a 400 square foot model of the USSR’s capital city back in 1977. Today you can buy that super-detailed, scaled-down version of Moscow for a mere $3 million.
Stunning, isn’t it? Apparently every single of the itty-bitty windows in the model can be lit up and there are effects to simulate day and night time. I guess that it’s not surprising that the electricity costs alone are making mini-Moscow enough of an expense to get pushed onto the auction block.
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